The filth police
When Raziel Reid recently became the youngest ever winner of the Governor-General’s Award for children’s literature he…
Monthly Archives: January, 2015
What’s hot, what’s not
It’s always interesting to find out what other people are reading. In their latest annual…
How do authors make money?
The short answer? They don’t. Unless you win the lottery with a runaway bestseller, you’d…
Canada Reads, again
The CBC’s popular Canada Reads program is starting up again. The 2015 edition is hosted…
Jury inflation
After upping the prize money for last year’s Scotiabank Giller Prize to $100,000, the good…
The book voyeur
There may be something a little intrusive about taking pictures of people reading on the…
The new gatekeepers
Over at Slate, editor Daniel Menaker has written a piece in praise of literary gatekeepers.…
Inside the sausage factory
When Anthony Trollope’s Autobiography (1883) was published a year after his death it shocked many…